Package for fire-kindlers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. FRENCH, 0F VVILLIMANIIC, CONNECTICUT.

PACKAGE FOR FIRE-KINDLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,240, dated June 21, 1881. Application filed April 9, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES H. FRENCH, of Willimantic, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Packages for Fire-Kindlers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact. description.

The drawing shows a package or box lled with the re-kindlers, its cover being detached.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved package for fire-kindlers which will prevent the evaporation of the turpen tine and other volatile substances contained in said kin-dlers, and which can be produced at a small additional cost above that of the labor and material used in making said packages.

My invention consists of a fire-kindler package in which the interior surfaces of the packages are sealed with a compound of shellac and glue to prevent the evaporation of the turpentine and other volatile substances contained in the ire-kindlers, as hereinafter more particularly described.

The drawing shows a paper or straw-board box, A, filled with the ordinaryre-kindlers B, which consist of pieces of `-poder other combustible material satLiradw`/ it l tgpe11 tine or other volatile and inflammable oils or substances. In the drawing the cover C of the package A is removed, its inner face being shown, the shading upon which is intended to represent my sealing compounds as applied thereto. Said iire-kindlers B would lose their specially-valuable qualities by reason of the evaporation of the aforesaid volatile inflammable substances if exposed to the air for a brief period.

To carry my invention into effect, I first apply to the interior of a package or boX, A, a coat of shellac, preferably cut or dissolved with alcohol, and before said shellac has hardened Ialpl'y over it a coat of hot gll, and let the shellac and glue harden together, which applications close the pores of the package and effectually seal it internally against the escape of the volatile substances from the fire-kindlers, so that their good qualities may be preserved for an indefinite period while awaiting.

consumption. Aforesaid applications of shellac and glue constitute the essential feature of my invention; but a coating or wash of hot kerosene or petroleum oil quickly puton may la-'terwar'appliedfif it is desired to give the shellac-glue interior liningaharder surface.

I have here shown and described my improvement as applied to the sealin g of lire-kndler packages made in the form of boxes; but it will be understood that my invention may be applied to seal fire-kindler packages made in or of any other form, size, or material.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A process of rendering paper boxes air-tight and preventing the evaporation of the volatile elements in the contents thereof, which consists in first applying a coat of shellac cut in alcohol, and before it has hardened a coat of hot glue, the two being allowed to harden together, as described.

JAMES H. FRENCH Witnesses:

J. R. ARNOLD, J. D. BENTLEY. 

